README for Lua 5.1



* What is Lua?

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  Lua is a powerful, light-weight programming language designed for extending

  applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone

  language. Lua is free software.



  For complete information, visit Lua's web site at http://www.lua.org/ .

  For an executive summary, see http://www.lua.org/about.html .



  Lua has been used in many different projects around the world.

  For a short list, see http://www.lua.org/uses.html .



* Availability

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  Lua is freely available for both academic and commercial purposes.

  See COPYRIGHT and http://www.lua.org/license.html for details.

  Lua can be downloaded at http://www.lua.org/download.html .



* Installation

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  Lua is implemented in pure ANSI C, and compiles unmodified in all known

  platforms that have an ANSI C compiler. Under Unix, simply typing "make"

  should work. See INSTALL for detailed instructions.



* Origin

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  Lua is developed at Lua.org, a laboratory of the Department of Computer

  Science of PUC-Rio (the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro

  in Brazil).

  For more information about the authors, see http://www.lua.org/authors.html .



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